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2023 in review - Updating Rebuttals and a lot more

During most of 2023 we highlighted one updated rebuttal per week, output from our quite productive Rebuttal Update Factory. Cranky Uncle learned a few new languages during the year and we could add several handbook translations.  But there was a lot more to keep us busy during the year! As in previous recaps, this one is divided into several sections:

How big a threat does misinformation pose to democracy?

"At the time of this writing, it is difficult to avoid the realization that one side of politics mainly in the U.S. but also elsewhere appears more threatened by research into misinformation than by the risks to democracy arising from misinformation itself."

Correcting Vaccine Misinformation: A Failure to Replicate Familiarity or Fear-driven Backfire Effects

".adds to the mounting evidence against familiarity backfire effects and has implications for vaccination communications and the design of debunking interventions." Individuals often continue to rely on misinformation in their reasoning and decision making even after it has been corrected.

First Draft: prebunking and avoiding amplification of election disinformation